505 Glass Tank Contests Continued Multiple Winners

[Debra_oh]

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis' is the longest word in the English Language. It's a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust.

 

[Jenn Perry]

“If you’re one of the millions of people out there addicted to smoking, there may finally be some hope for you – the electronic cigarette. It gives you nicotine but it doesn’t give you any of the other 4000 chemicals that can cause cancer among other problems.”

- Dr. Travis Stork
from “The Doctors”

 

[Ding]

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

 

[Debra_oh]

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

 

[Ding]

"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
- General George S. Patton

 

[DocTonyNYC]

The first movie to be filmed in Technicolor was Becky Sharp (1934).

The first movie to gross over $100 million was Jaws (1975).

 

[Ding]

"Political correctness is tyranny with manners."
- Charlton Heston

 

[Debra_oh]

Only food that does not spoil: honey

 

[Reddhott]

" The only thing worthwhile in life is not a thing, but a sense of awe."

 

[DocTonyNYC]

The shortest performance to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor was Anthony Quinn’s eight-minute tour de force as Gauguin in Lust for Life (1956). The shortest performance to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress was Beatrice Straight's 5 minutes and 40 seconds performance in the 1976 film Network.

 

[Debra_oh]

Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball

 

[Ding]

"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."
- Ayn Rand

 

[Reddhott]

" Don't wait for destiny; you have been in it since the day you were born."

 

[Debra_oh]

The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.

 

[DocTonyNYC]

The first Hollywood movie star is arguably Mary Pickford (1893-1979), who along with Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith formed United Artists Corp (1919). At the peak of her popularity, she made a record-breaking $10,000 a week (over $196,000 in 2008 USD).

 

[skydragon]

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren Buffett

 

[DocTonyNYC]

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) called for a boycott of the 1947 Disney film Song of the South, an adaptation of the Uncle Remus stories that showed happy slaves on a plantation. Though the film inspired the Disneyland ride “Splash Mountain,” the film has never been released in its entirety on home video in the U.S.

 

[Reddhott]

 

[Debra_oh]

"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."
- e e cummings

 

[Reddhott]

Every person has a unique tongue print. (Say "aaah")